“ Accelerating Sustainability ”

1. Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability “Accelerating Sustainability”

2. The CIRS Opportunity To help make Canada a world leader in three interconnected fields of applied sustainability: Part 1 - building design and operations Part 2 - visualization, simulation and community engagement Part 3 - partnerships and strategies of regional implementation

3. net positive on water net positive on energy and GHG emissions A building that restores the environment around it A Regenerative Building Process • Continuous research: • technical performance of building systems • behavioural interface of building & inhabitants • All water from the sky • All liquid waste treatment from the ground & sun • All heating and cooling from the ground/neighbours/sun • All light (when avail.) from the sun • Much electricity from the sun • Most ventilation from the wind • Wood building net positive on structural carbon

5. Life Cycle Cost of CIRS

6. The CIRS Building Concept Improving the Local and Global Environment

7. The CIRS Building Concept Improving the Human Environment

8. The CIRS Building Concept Cost-effective and Adaptive

9. The CIRS Building Concept

10. Engaging the Community • 60 seat theatre with interactive touch pads in the seat arms • 4m X 12m curved screen immersion environment at the front • Fly audience through the landscape of the future, showing effects on the ground as they make policy decisions • Plus displays, interactive exhibits and public art, web experiences of building, etc.

11. Immersion Exploration Collaboration

12. Chicago Metroquest

13. Metroquest kiosk Sears Tower, Chicago, 2009

14. Showcasing Sustainable Development in BC • Identify handful of areas of comparative advantage in SD in BC • Create new forms of partnership to make them happen on the ground in this region: create Showcase • Use this as springboard for penetrating global market in SD technology and services

15. Honeywell controls SGI data mgmt ICSC urban design Corix utility solar Xantrex offsets DSF Envision simulation finance Vancity Visionwall envelope energy policy NRCan DSM BC Hydro IT Telus FCC fuel cells Vancouver codes Haworth interiors standards GVRD industrial ecology NRC The Sustainability Mosaic New forms of partnership

16. UBC Sustainability Academic Strategy Exploring and Exemplifying Sustainability UBC’s Sustainability Academic Strategy October 17, 2009 Presented to UBC Executive in August 2009 Additional Public Comment in September 2009 Final Submission in October, 2009 UBC Vancouver’s Steam Heating System (top) and UBC Okanagan’s Geothermal Field (bottom): Treating both UBC’s campuses as integrated energy, water and waste systems offers an unparalleled opportunity to link teaching and learning, research and partnerships, and operational activities through the Sustainability Academic Strategy

17. UBC Sustainability Academic Strategy Campus as Living Lab Agent of Change Teaching/ Learning Research/ Partnerships Operations/Admin Explore & Exemplify 4. Further On Beyond Zebra

18. SAS Table of Contents • Vision • Teaching & Learning - 3 recommendations • Research & Service - 4 recommendations • Operations & Administration - 5 recommendations • Implementation - 3 recommendations

19. UBC (Vancouver) Sustainability Initiative Media Release Jan. 27, 2010 “UBC President Stephen Toope has announced the creation of a new sustainability strategic management initiative that will begin to take shape immediately.”

20. UBC Vancouver Sustainability Initiative Student Advisory Council Steering Committee BC Sustainability Council University Sustainability Initiative RPO APO CSO Research & Partnerships Operations/ Admin Academic Programs

21. CIRS Site, Feb 27, 2010